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- This invention relates in general to methods of removing contaminants such as carbon monoxide from an anode or cathode of a fuel cell.
- Fuel cells and particularly polymer electrolyte membrane (“PEM”) fuel cells are actively under development by a large number of companies. These devices, while offering efficiency and environmental advantages, are too expensive at current prices to have a major market impact. Consequently, there is a world-wide effort to reduce the cost of these units.
- PEM polymer electrolyte membrane
- Fuel cells for stationary applications are fueled primarily by methane and propane, from which hydrogen is obtained in a fuel processing unit that combines steam reforming with water-gas shifting and carbon monoxide cleanup. It is widely recognized that even 50 ppm of carbon monoxide (CO) in the fuel can coat the anode of the fuel cell, reducing the area available for hydrogen to react, and limiting the fuel cell current. CO is also a major poison with reformed methanol and direct methanol fuel cells.
- CO carbon monoxide
- Reforming methane produces about 10% or higher CO. This is reduced to about 1 percent CO in a water-gas shift reactor, followed by a reduction to 10 to 50 ppm in a CO clean-up reactor.
- Both the water-gas shift reactor and the clean-up reactor are major costs in the fuel cell system.
- the PROX clean-up reactor uses two to three reaction stages operating at temperature of 160° C. to 190° C. compared to the stack temperature of 80° C.
- the water-gas shift reactor typically consists of two reactor stages operating at higher and lower temperatures.
- a stack running on 10 to 50 ppm of CO must be about twice the electrode area of a stack operating on pure H 2 .
- the pulsing approaches used in the current patent and technical literature do not address pulsing waveform shapes other than square waves.
- methods of determining suitable waveform shapes for different electrodes, electrolytes, load characteristics, and operating conditions are not discussed. More powerful techniques are needed for electrode cleaning in fuel cells, particularly techniques that would allow the fuel cell to consistently and robustly operate on 1 percent and higher levels of CO, while eliminating the clean-up reactor, simplifying the reformer and shift reactors, and reducing the stack size.
- the invention reported herein utilizes the inherent dynamical properties of the electrode to improve the fuel cell performance and arrive at a suitable pulsing waveform shape or electrode voltage control method.
- This invention relates to a method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to an electrode.
- the method includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to an electrode of a device; determining a waveform of the voltage or the current of the electrical current; representing the waveform by mathematical expressions or numbers; measuring a function of the device associated with the application of the electrical current; and varying the shape and frequency of the waveform to optimize the function of the device and thereby determine an optimized waveform of the electrical current to be applied to the electrode of the device.
- the invention also relates to another method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to an electrode.
- the method includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to an electrode of a device; determining a waveform of the voltage or the current of the electrical current; representing the waveform by a mathematical description such as a number of points or an analytical function characterized by a number of unknown coefficients and a fixed number of known functions; measuring a function of the device associated with the application of the electrical current; feeding the waveform description and the measurements to an algorithm, which may be in a computer program or other calculating device including manual calculations, including an optimization routine which uses the points or coefficients as independent variables for optimizing the function of the device; and performing the calculations to determine values of the points or coefficients which optimize the function of the device, and thereby determine an optimized waveform of the electrical current to be applied to the electrode of the device.
- the invention also relates to a method of removing contaminants from an anode of a fuel cell.
- the method includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to the anode of the fuel cell; and pulsing the voltage of the electrical current during the application, such that the overvoltage at the anode is negative during the pulses, and the overvoltage at the anode is positive between the pulses.
- the invention also relates to a method of operating a fuel cell.
- the method includes the steps of: applying an overvoltage to the anode of the fuel cell by applying a voltage to the anode with respect to a reference electrode, where the fuel contains higher than 1 percent CO; and varying the overvoltage between a low value normally used for power production and a high value sufficiently high for cleaning CO from the electrode.
- the invention also relates to another method of operating a fuel cell.
- the method includes the steps of: feeding a fuel to the fuel cell containing at least 1 percent of an electrochemically active contaminant; and applying an overvoltage to an electrode of the fuel cell, and varying the overvoltage between a low value normally used for power production and a high value for cleaning the contaminant from the electrode.
- the invention also relates to a pulsed anode of an electrical device operating at greater than 1 percent CO using a method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to the anode.
- the method includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to the anode; determining a waveform of the voltage or the current of the device; representing the waveform by mathematical expressions or numbers; taking measurements of a function of the device associated with the application of the electrical current; and varying the shape and frequency of the waveform to optimize the function of the device and thereby determine an optimized waveform of the electrical current to be applied to the anode of the device.
- the invention also relates to a fuel cell having a pulsed electrode including an oxidation pulse, and the fuel cell having a voltage booster to change the cell voltage during the oxidation pulse to a desired level.
- the invention also relates to a fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell operated using the method of optimizing a waveform; and a simplified fuel processor comprising a fuel reformer, and no water-gas shift reactor and no CO cleanup reactor.
- the invention also relates to fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell operated using the method of removing contaminants from an anode of a fuel cell; and a simplified fuel processor comprising a fuel reformer, and no water-gas shift reactor and no CO cleanup reactor.
- the invention also relates to another fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell having a pulsed electrode and operating with a fuel containing greater than 1 percent electrochemically active contaminant; and a fuel processor that is simplified compared to a fuel processor required when the same fuel cell is used without pulsing.
- the invention also relates to a method of operating a fuel cell where a contaminant is cleaned from an electrode, where the fuel cell during operation has a variation in anode and/or cathode overvoltage.
- the method comprises feeding back a portion of the current output of the fuel cell to a control circuit to vary the voltage waveform to maintain a desired current and cleaning the contaminant.
- the invention also relates to a method of cleaning an electrochemically active contaminant from an electrode of an apparatus used in an electrochemical process, in which the electrode is cleaned by oxidizing the contaminant so that another reaction can proceed on the electrode, where the apparatus during operation has a variation in electrode overvoltage.
- the method comprises feeding back a portion of the current output of the apparatus to vary the voltage waveform to maintain a desired current and cleaning the contaminant.
- the invention also relates to a method of cleaning an electrochemically active contaminant from an electrode of an apparatus used in an electrochemical process, in which the electrode is cleaned by oxidizing the contaminant so that another reaction can proceed on the electrode, where the apparatus during operation has a variation in electrode overvoltage.
- the method comprises measuring the current or voltage across the anode and cathode of the device, and utilizing that measurement as the input to a device to vary a load impedance that is in parallel or series with the useful load of the device to vary the voltage or current waveform at the electrodes to maintain a desired current and cleaning the contaminant.
- the invention also relates to a method of removing contaminants from an electrode of a fuel cell, comprising applying an electrical energy to the electrode of the fuel cell in the form of small voltage pulses to excite natural oscillations in fuel cell voltage during operation of the fuel cell, the voltage pulses being applied at the same frequency as the natural oscillations or at a frequency different from the natural oscillations.
- the invention also relates to a method of removing contaminants from an anode of a fuel cell, comprising applying an electrical current to the anode of the fuel cell in the form of small voltage pulses to excite natural oscillations in fuel cell voltage during operation of the fuel cell, the voltage pulses being applied at the same frequency as the natural oscillations or at a frequency different from the natural oscillations.
- the invention also relates to a method of removing contaminants from an anode or cathode of a fuel cell, comprising: applying an electrical current to the anode or cathode of the fuel cell; pulsing the voltage of the electrical current during the application; and controlling the pulsing with a control function to create a waveform or a frequency of the pulsing that removes the contaminants and maximizes the power output from the fuel cell.
- the invention also relates to a method of removing contaminants from an anode or cathode of a fuel cell, comprising: applying an electrical current to the anode or cathode of the fuel cell; and pulsing the voltage of the electrical current during the application, the pulsing exciting and maintaining a natural oscillation of the fuel cell system.
- the invention also relates to a feedback control method of operating a fuel cell comprising applying voltage control to an anode of the fuel cell using the following algorithm:
- the invention also relates to a feedback control method of operating a fuel cell comprising applying voltage control to an anode of the fuel cell using the following algorithm:
- steps a), b) and c) forming a set of mathematical relationships from steps a), b) and c) that allows the current to be measured, the overvoltage to be prescribed and the instantaneous carbon monoxide coverage and instantaneous hydrogen coverage to be predicted;
- step d) driving the carbon monoxide coverage to a low value by varying the overvoltage according to step d);
- the invention also relates to a feedback control method of operating an electrochemical apparatus operated using a fuel containing an electrochemically active contaminant, the method comprising applying voltage control to an anode of the apparatus using the following algorithm:
- the invention further relates to a feedback control method of operating an electrochemical apparatus operated using a fuel containing an electrochemically active contaminant, the method comprising applying voltage control to an anode of the apparatus using the following algorithm:
- steps a), b) and c) forming a set of mathematical relationships from steps a), b) and c) that allows the current to be measured, the overvoltage to be prescribed and the instantaneous contaminant coverage and instantaneous fuel coverage to be predicted;
- step d) driving the contaminant coverage to a low value by varying the overvoltage according to step d);
- step d) driving the fuel coverage to a high value by varying the overvoltage according to step d);
- FIG. 1A shows voltage waveforms for a methanol fuel cell, showing that negative pulsing delivers the most current.
- FIG. 1B shows current waveforms for a methanol fuel cell, showing that negative pulsing delivers the most current.
- FIG. 2 shows the charge delivered by the methanol fuel cell during the experiments.
- FIGS. 3A and 3B show a voltage waveform and the resulting current for the methanol fuel cell.
- FIGS. 3C and 3D show another voltage waveform and the resulting current for the methanol fuel cell.
- FIGS. 3E and 3F show another voltage waveform and the resulting current for the methanol fuel cell.
- FIG. 4 shows the charge delivered by the various waveform shapes in FIGS. 3A , 3 C and 3 E.
- FIG. 5 is a representation of a voltage waveform by a fixed number of points.
- FIG. 6 shows a comparison of the charge delivered by a dynamic electrode with hydrogen fuel and different levels of carbon monoxide, compared to normal fuel cell operation.
- FIG. 7A shows voltage waveforms of a fuel cell using hydrogen containing 1% CO as the fuel.
- FIG. 7B shows the current resulting from the voltage waveforms of FIG. 7A .
- FIG. 8 is a schematic of a device including a fuel cell, electronic pulsing hardware and voltage boosting circuitry.
- FIG. 9 shows anode current and voltage waveforms before the voltage boosting circuitry of the device of FIG. 8 .
- FIG. 10A shows a plot of over potential in a fuel cell using feedback linearization.
- FIG. 10B shows a plot of the coverage of CO in a fuel cell using feedback linearization.
- FIG. 11A shows voltage waveforms of a fuel cell using a feedback control technique based on natural oscillations in voltage to clean the electrode.
- FIG. 11B shows a current waveform of the fuel cell of FIG. 11A .
- the present invention relates in general to methods of removing electrochemically active contaminants from electrochemical processes.
- the methods may apply to any electrochemical process in which a contaminant is being oxidized so that another reaction can proceed.
- the electrochemically active contaminant is any contaminant that can be removed by setting the operating voltage at a voltage bounded by ⁇ Voc and +Voc, where Voc is the open circuit voltage of the apparatus used in the process.
- the invention relates to methods of removing carbon monoxide or other contaminants from the anode or cathode of a fuel cell, thereby maximizing or otherwise optimizing a performance measure such as the power output or current of the fuel cell.
- the methods usually involve varying the overvoltage of an electrode, which is the excess electrode voltage required over the ideal electrode voltage. This can be done by varying the load on the device, i.e., by placing a second load that varies in time in parallel with the primary load, or by using a feedback system that connects to the anode, the cathode and a reference electrode.
- a feedback system that is commonly used is the potentiostat.
- the reference electrode can be the cathode; in other cases it is a third electrode.
- the present invention provides:
- FIG. 2 illustrates this better, showing that the charge delivered is larger when the cleaning pulse is negative and the voltage level during power production is at 0.6 volts (the top curve—dashed), which is near the peak methanol oxidation potential from a cyclic voltammogram.
- the solid black curve has a cleaning potential at 0.0 volts and power production at 0.6 volts.
- the current traces have a positive and a negative component to them. When the current is positive, the cell is delivering current. When the current is negative, the cell is receiving current. Consequently, it is desirable to maximize the positive current and minimize the negative current.
- FIGS. 3A-3F show that varying the voltage shapes can strongly influence the shape of the current traces and can reduce the negative current.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the charge delivered by the various waveform shapes shown in FIGS. 3A , 3 C and 3 E.
- the waveform is a voltage or current waveform that is connected to the anode of a fuel cell, such that the anode is operated at that voltage, or perhaps is operated at that voltage plus or minus a fixed offset voltage.
- the offset voltage may vary slowly with the operating conditions due to, for instance, changes in the load. The waveform variation is much faster than any variation in the offset voltage.
- This waveform pattern is fed to the anode and repeated at a frequency specified by the points, as the figure illustrates. Measurements are made of the power or current or other performance parameter, whichever is most appropriate, delivered by the fuel cell. The performance parameter and waveform points are then fed to an algorithm, which may be in a computer program or hand calculation, which optimizes the waveform shape to maximize the performance, such as power or current delivered.
- the optimum waveform can thus be determined for the specific fuel cell electrode and operating conditions. This optimizing procedure can be repeated as often as necessary during operation to guard against changes in the electrode or other components over time or for different operating conditions.
- the points describing the waveform can be considered to be independent variables for the optimization routine.
- the net current or power produced (current or power that is output minus any current or power supplied to the electrode) is the objective function to be optimized.
- a person skilled in the art of optimization could select a computer algorithm to perform the optimization. Typical algorithms might include steepest descent, derivative-free algorithms, annealing algorithms, or many others well-known to those skilled in the art.
- the waveform could be represented by a set of functions containing one or more unknown coefficients. These coefficients are then analogous to the points in the preceding description, and may be treated as independent variables in the optimization routine.
- the waveform could be represented by a Fourier Series, with the coefficient of each term in the series being an unknown coefficient.
- Pulsed cleaning of electrochemically active contaminants from an electrode of an electrochemical apparatus involves raising the overvoltage of the electrode to a sufficiently high value to oxidize the contaminants adsorbed onto the electrode surface.
- the pulsed cleaning of an anode or cathode of a fuel cell usually involves raising the overvoltage to oxidize adsorbed CO to CO 2 .
- the overvoltage is dropped back to the conventional overvoltage where power is produced.
- FIG. 6 shows a plot of charge delivered by a 5 cm 2 PEM fuel cell, operated as a single cell at room temperature under a standard three-electrode configuration with a potentiostat and air supplied to the cathode, as a function of time. The smooth curve at the top is the charge obtained when pure hydrogen is used as the fuel.
- pulsing of a fuel cell anode allows the fuel cell to operate using a hydrogen fuel containing greater than 1% CO, up to 10% CO or possibly higher. Pulsing can take care of much larger amounts of CO than previously thought. In the past, most fuel cells have been operated using a hydrogen fuel containing 50 to 100 ppm, whereas we have found that up to 10% or more CO can be used (at least 10,000 times the previous level). This invention permits a step change increase in CO contamination with minimal impact on current output.
- the ability to operate a fuel cell with hydrogen having high CO levels enables a simplified, less costly fuel cell system to be used. Operation at high CO levels enables the fuel processor to be much simpler, less costly and smaller in size.
- the fuel processor of a conventional fuel cell system usually includes a fuel reformer, a multi-stage water-gas shift reactor and a CO cleanup reactor.
- the simplified fuel processor of the invention can include a fuel reformer and a simplified water-gas shift reactor, for example a one-stage or two-stage reactor instead of a multi-stage reactor. In some cases, the water-gas shift reactor can be eliminated.
- the cleanup reactor can usually be eliminated in the simplified fuel processor. Essentially this invention enables the fuel cell electrode to tolerate CO concentrations of 10 percent or higher, and therefore the fuel processor can operate with simplified components since it can produce CO concentrations of 10 percent or higher.
- FIGS. 7A and 7B An examination of the cell voltage and current is shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B for 1% CO in hydrogen in the same fuel cell and same operating conditions as that in FIG. 6 . Two cases are shown. In the first, the overvoltage waveform varies between 0.05 and 0.7 volts. In the second, the overvoltage varies between 0.05 and 0.65 volts. The figure shows that the cell current is high when the voltage reaches 0.7 volts, but is much lower when the voltage reaches 0.65 volts. This indicates that 0.7 volts is the CO oxidizing voltage, in agreement with known theory. The initial peak in current, when the voltage first reaches 0.7 volts, is expected to be the CO being oxidized. The current then decreases and then increases steadily as the hydrogen reaches the newly cleaned surface. The hydrogen current is high at this large overvoltage.
- the current is high during the CO oxidizing voltage, but the overall cell output voltage is low (since the overvoltage is high).
- the power which is defined as the product of voltage times current, is surprisingly high for CO concentrations greater than 1 percent.
- the output voltage is boosted to a more usable value by using a voltage boosting circuit, such as a switching circuit.
- a voltage boosting circuit such as a switching circuit.
- one embodiment of the invention relates to a fuel cell having a pulsed electrode in combination with a voltage conditioning circuit, such as a voltage booster to change the cell voltage during the oxidation pulse to a desired level.
- a voltage conditioning circuit such as a voltage booster to change the cell voltage during the oxidation pulse to a desired level.
- all of the cleaning techniques described in this patent may be used for fuel cells with CO concentrations greater than 1 percent.
- the method uses a model based upon the coverage of the electrode surface with hydrogen ( ⁇ H ) and CO ( ⁇ CO ).
- ⁇ H hydrogen
- CO CO
- FIGS. 10A and 10B The results of this example algorithm are shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B .
- FIG. 10A shows the overpotential as a function of time, with the overpotential high for about 13 seconds and low for the remaining time.
- FIG. 10B shows the coverage of CO being reduced from about 0.88 to 0.05 by applying step 5, followed by the coverage of hydrogen being increased from near zero to 0.95 by applying step 6. The hydrogen coverage will gradually degrade over time and the process will be repeated periodically.
- Optimal control can also be implemented to minimize the power applied to the cell used to stabilize the hydrogen electrode coverage, hence maximizing the output power of the cell.
- the steps are as follows:
- FIGS. 11A and 11B show data obtained in our laboratory using the same 5 cm2 fuel cell described in the earlier paragraphs. These data were obtained at constant current operation a PAR Model 273 Potientostat operated in the galvanostatic mode. Hydrogen fuel was used with four different levels of CO: 500 ppm CO, 1 percent, 5 percent and 10 percent. The figures show that when the current is increased to 0.4 amps and the concentration of CO is 1 percent or greater, the cell voltage begins to oscillate with an amplitude that is consistent with the amplitudes expected for CO oxidation. Furthermore, the amplitude increases as the CO level in the fuel increases.
- a feed back control system is used to measure the current of the fuel cell, compare it to a desired value and adjust the waveform of the anode voltage to achieve that desired value. Essentially, this will reproduce a voltage waveform similar to FIG. 11A .
- the controller to be used is any control algorithm or black box method that does not necessarily require a mathematical model or representation of the dynamic system as described in Passino, Kevin M., Stephen Yurkovich, Fuzzy Control, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1998.
- the control algorithm may be used in accordance with a voltage following or other buffer circuit that can supply enough power to cell to maintain the desired overpotential at the anode. Because the voltage follower provides the power, the controller may be based upon low power electronics. However, in some cases it may be more advantageous to not incorporate the voltage follower in the control circuit, since in some cases external power will not be required to maintain the overvoltage.
- the resulting output of the controller will be similar to that in FIGS. 11A and 11B , with the addition of a voltage boosting circuit the cell may be run at some desired constant voltage or follow a prescribed load.
- the natural oscillations of voltage may be maintained by providing pulses of the proper frequency and duration to the anode or cathode of the device to excite and maintain the oscillations. Since this is a nonlinear system, the frequency may be the same as or different from the frequency of the natural oscillations.
- the pulsing energy may come from an external power source or from feeding back some of the power produced by the fuel cell. The fed back power can serve as the input to a controller that produces the pulses that are delivered to the electrode.
- the present invention is contemplated for use with fuel cells as well as other apparatuses used in electrochemical processes.
- the types of fuel cells include PEM fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, methane fuel cells, propane fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, and phosphoric acid fuel cells.
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